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This program is a game guess the right number you have different levels but as you can see when you run this the counter is not stopping the game I cant see why that is and I would like to offer the choice of playing it again as many times as you want and I am not sure where or how to do this any help would be appreciated thanks

#include "iostream"

using namespace std;

const int EASY = 1;
const int INTERMEDIATE = 2;
const int HARD = 3;

int main(){
	int choice;
	int answer;
	int counter = 0;

	cout << "If you want to win this new backpack you will have to play the game /n";
	cout << "The game is played by you guessing a number while I will tell you higher or lower until you get the right one /n";
	cout << "Chose your level /n";

	//Dispaly choice

	cin >> choice;
	if (choice == EASY)
	{
		while (counter = 15)
			cout << "You have 15 chances" << endl;
	}
   else if (choice == INTERMEDIATE)
	{
		cout << "You have 10 chances" << endl;
	}
   else if (choice == HARD)
	{
		cout << "You have 5 chances" << endl;
	}
   else 
	{
	
	}

	while (true)
	{	
		cin >> answer;
		//Display response
		if (answer == 35)
		{
			cout << "Your a winner /n";
			break;
		} 
		else if (answer > 35)
		{
			cout << "Lower /n)" << "Try Agin";
		} 
		else 
		{
			cout << "Higher /n)" << "Try again";	
		}
	}
	system ("pause");
	return 0;
}

Posted 11-Oct-10 15:39pm

EDITH GINGRAS

Updated 11-Oct-10 16:52pm

HimanshuJoshi

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HimanshuJoshi · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-11T17:10:00

Change your if-elseif-else branch to store counter the desired value. You are just storing the value and looping over that.

while (counter = 15)
    cout << "You have 15 chances" << endl;

The above will result in infinite loop.

Change it like following. Do not loop right in the if-else branch. Just store the counter.

if (choice == EASY)
{
    counter = 15;
    cout << "You have 15 chances" << endl;
}
    else if (choice == INTERMEDIATE)
{
        counter = 10;
        cout << "You have 10 chances" << endl;
}
    else if (choice == HARD)
{
    counter = 5;
        cout << "You have 5 chances" << endl;
}

This will give the user infinite chances to play single game

while(true) 
{

but the following will give counter number of chances for single game but infinite number of games to play.

while(true)
{
    while (counter--)
    {
        if(correct)
           break;
        else if (lower)
           cout << "lower";
        else
           cout << "Higher";
    }
    
    cout << "Do you want to play again? Y/N";
    cin >> Choice;
    
    if(Choice == 'N')
       break;   
}